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Biotech in agriculture: the issues and the stakeholders

Biotech in agriculture: the issues and the stakeholders. HSCI E137 Mar 9, 2011 Announcements: Essay Two assignment posted Sides and Roles for Debate 1 posted NW’s office hour in Rm 317. But first…. Genetic testing and its dilemmas Family implications GINA and discrimination vs. privacy

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Biotech in agriculture: the issues and the stakeholders

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  1. Biotech in agriculture:the issues and thestakeholders HSCI E137 Mar 9, 2011 Announcements: Essay Two assignment posted Sides and Roles for Debate 1 posted NW’s office hour in Rm 317

  2. But first… • Genetic testing and its dilemmas • Family implications • GINA and discrimination vs. privacy • Race and pharmacogenomics • Coerciveness • Slippery slopes • Genomania?

  3. Krimsky’s Technology Assessment Index and rBGH milk

  4. Agricultural biotechnology • 1980s context familiar from Krimsky • Biopatenting • Deregulation • The mixed message • Monsanto’s successful products • Bt (bacterial gene that produces a pesticide) • Roundup Ready (herbicide tolerance) • Arrangement with the seed companies

  5. The Schmeiser Case • 2001 Federal Court, • Saskatoon • 2004 Supreme Court • Of Canada • 2008 Out of court • settlement The classic David vs. Goliath struggle? From www.percyschmeiser.com

  6. “The French may not think GM food fit even for animals. They are wrong. Grown safely, GM food will be the solution to the current food crisis in which too many die from having too much that is known to be bad, while too many die from having no food at all.” --Art Caplan, p. 50 “We must call this situation for what it is-- a situation of plunder for profit, of corporations willfully polluting our food supply….The answer is clear: stop the genetic experiment.” --Doreen Stabinsky, p. 77

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